2. Build Hugo Blog in Windows 10

2.1 Create 2 Github Repo

2.1.1 Create a Repo for Store All Files

Firstly, you need to create a repo (GitHub Pages is a blog service which provides by GitHub) at GitHub. I just simply created mine as hugo-blog. You are feel free to refer to GitHub Pages for further information.

After that, I’ve just simply download as a ｮStudio project via ｮStudio IDE. You are feel free to read Setup ｮStudio Server on Digital Ocean — CentOS 7 if you are using centOS 7 on DigitalOcean.com. You might choose only command prompt will be able to create yours easily.

Here is my path for the Hugo blog which I just simply copy the https://github.com/englianhu/englianhu.github.io.git and create a new project in ｮStudio.

It will be > C:\Users\scibr\Documents\GitHub\englianhu\hugo-blog.

2.2.2 Create a Repo for Only Blog Content

Secondly, create another repo which is englianhu.github.io (or your own url if you have your own paid domain name.).

The first hugo-blog is a repo to save all relevant files include whole struture but englianhu.github.io is the GitHub blog which only contain the files inside folder public in hugo website folder hugo-blog.

Here I try to eloberates the use and different between these:

https://github.com/englianhu/hugo-blog is a GitHub repo which can store all your blog relevant files which contain whole struture of the website.
https://github.com/englianhu/hugo-blog.git is a GitHub git file which is able to connect (pull and push files) your files to the GitHub server and repo hugo-blog.
C:\Users\scibr\Documents\GitHub\englianhu\hugo-blog\hugo-blog.Rproj is a ｮStudio file which store a project for repo hugo-blog. I use ｮStudio since it is a user friendly IDE for markdown files management/handling.
https://github.com/englianhu/englianhu.github.io is repo for hugo blog since the default url provides by GitHub is https://<yourname>.github.io>.

2.2 Download Hugo Apps

Secondly, you need to go to spf13/hugo to download the latest (currently version 1.6 is the most updated version) version. Click here to download the HUGO server Windows 64 bit.

Due to the Hugo.exe is a standalone app, therefore I just simply locate it at > C:\Users\scibr\Documents\GitHub\englianhu and then move the folder hugo-blog to path C:\Users\scibr\Documents\GitHub\ to save the github and ｮStudio *.Rproj relevant files and avoid the error duplicate folder name hugo-blog.

Now, you can create a new website by run below codes :

> C:\Users\scibr\Documents\GitHub\englianhu>hugo new site hugo-blog

After you created the folder hugo-blog. Please remember move the prvious files inside path C:\Users\scibr\Documents\GitHub\hugo-blog into C:\Users\scibr\Documents\GitHub\englianhu\hugo-blog and delete the folder C:\Users\scibr\Documents\GitHub\hugo-blog. The purpose to do so just moved the github and *.Rproj relevant files to our hugo new site folder in order to handle in ｮStudio and also pull from or push to GitHub repo.

2.3 Install Hugo Theme

After create a structure of the website, move the hugo.exe into folder hugo-blog manually and then run below codes to download the theme:

> C:\Users\scibr\Documents\GitHub\englianhu>cd hugo-blog
> C:\Users\scibr\Documents\GitHub\englianhu\hugo-blog>git init
> C:\Users\scibr\Documents\GitHub\englianhu\hugo-blog>echo .DS_Store >> .gitignore
> C:\Users\scibr\Documents\GitHub\englianhu\hugo-blog>git submodule add -f https://github.com/syui/hugo-theme-air.git themes/air

The 利用 Hugo & GitHub 搭建个人博客静态网站 in reference use git submodule add git@github.com:Zenithar/hugo-theme-crisp.git themes/crisp but there will require passphrase and SSH while I directly using url which will be more easier.

Remember the Hugo.exe is an standalone app and I move it to C:\Users\scibr\Documents\GitHub\englianhu\englianhu.github.io\themes> in order to run the app as below codes in [2.4 Browse via LocalHost Before Publish].

2.4 Configuration

We need to modify the configuration file via file name config.toml inside folder theme air as well as the config.toml inside folder englianhu.github.io.

baseurl = "http://englianhu.github.io"
languageCode = "en"
title = "RYO, ENG Lian Hu"
paginate = 8
theme = "air"
[params]
    description = "白戸則道：実に面白いですね！"
    email = "englianhu@gmail.com"
[permalinks]
    post = "/:year/:title/"
    addendum = "/addendum/:year/:title/"

2.5 Browse via LocalHost Before Publish

We can try to browse the demo version and modify it prior to publish.

> C:\Users\scibr\Documents\GitHub\englianhu\hugo-blog>hugo server -w
> C:\Users\scibr\Documents\GitHub\englianhu\hugo-blog>git rm -rf public
> C:\Users\scibr\Documents\GitHub\englianhu\hugo-blog>git submodule add https://github.com/englianhu/englianhu.github.io.git public

~~> C:\Users\scibr\Documents\GitHub\englianhu\hugo\themes>hugo server --theme=hugo-theme-air --buildDrafts --watch~~

Well, now we try to browse the http://127.0.0.1:1313/ localhost.

figure 2.3.1 : Hugo blog layout

2.6 Post to Hugo Blog

When you modified your post content and decide to post on your blog. Now you just run below codes and a folder public will be created.

> C:\Users\scibr\Documents\GitHub\englianhu\englianhu.github.io>hugo
> C:\Users\scibr\Documents\GitHub\englianhu\englianhu.github.io>cd public
> C:\Users\scibr\Documents\GitHub\englianhu\englianhu.github.io>git add -A && git commit -m "first post"
> C:\Users\scibr\Documents\GitHub\englianhu\englianhu.github.io>git push origin master
> C:\Users\scibr\Documents\GitHub\englianhu\englianhu.github.io>cd ..
> C:\Users\scibr\Documents\GitHub\englianhu\englianhu.github.io>git add -A && git commit -m "init hugo coder"
> C:\Users\scibr\Documents\GitHub\englianhu\englianhu.github.io>git push origin master

The files will upload to github repo and your blog and 1st post has been successful. Please be mind that Hugo blogs only publish the index file as html web page inside folder Public. Therefore the index.html right inside the folder Public will be the home page of the blog.

RYO, Lian Hu ENG

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